The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-03-19
News of the Week.

tional Convention OF 1880, died on MONDAY,
at the age of so years.
A tornado swept through Tampa, Florida,
Thursday night, demolishing several houses.
Two children were killed and several persons
were injured, one fatally.
Eben F. Pillsbury, prominent Democratic
politician and at one time proprietor OF the
Maine Standard, died in Melrose, Massachu-
sets. on Sunday night, aged 81 years.
The Governor of Tennessee on Tuesday
signed the bill submitting to the people
Prohibition amendment to the Constitution.
The election will be held next September.
Over thirty bridges on the Northern Pacific,
between Bismarck, Dakota and Billings,
have been swept away by floods. Passengers
report that Miles City has been twice inun-
dated within the last week.
The engine of a wrecking train on the In
ternational Railroad, in Texas, ran off the
track and crashed into an embankment near
Neches Tuesday morning. Ten men were
injured, one, named John Finley, fatally.
Paul Renlein, aged 81 years, prominent
druggist of Washington, died last Friday night
from the effects of drinking aconite by mistake
for whisky. He discovered his error IN
about five minutes, but it was then too late.
In Yonkers, New York, on Sunday evening,
COrnenuS
G.. Wolff, aged 16, fought upon the street,
and Dewitt knocked down his antagonist.
When the latter was picked up, it was found
he was dead.
In Cleveland, Ohio, three weeks ago, 600
men employed at the American Wire Works
asked for 10 per cent. increase in their
wages. The demand was refused. Thursday
ti,e men met and carried by six inajsitJ a
-etuSn nc :, ork.
i-aI-crab Orchard, KY, Wednesday. vigi.
lantes, or Law and Order Club, waited on
Mrs Eliza Fish, liquor seller. They took
her out in the yard, and were whipping her,
when shots were fired from over the fence.
and three of the ku-klux were left dead.
Walter E. Lawton, dealer in phosphates,
and director of the Delta Actin Company,
disappeared from New York on Tuesday
afternoon 1t is said that before going he
collected large sums of money, and his liabil-
tiles are estimated at nearly 81 100000.
The yachts Coronet and Dauntless started
from New York on Saturday on their ocean
race across the Atlantic. At 5p. M, off Fire
Island, the pilot boat David CARL saw the
Yachts going east under reeied sails, with the
Dauntless about mile and half ahead.
A passenger train on the Jacksonville
Southeastern Railroad ran off the track near
Girard, Illinois last Friday afternoon, and
two cars were ditched. Thirty persons were
injured, three dangerously. One of the injur-
ed, State Senator Southworth, is not likely to
recover.
Public Printer Benedict on Saturday night
discharged 43 employees of the Government
Printing Office, including SO compositors,
proof readers and copy holders and five book
binders and five. girl assistants. The reason
assigned for the dismissals was that reduc-
ton of expenses was necessary.
Two slight earthquakes were felt at Charles
ton and Summerfeld, in South Carolina, at
O'Clock Thursday morning. The tremor was
sharper in Summerfeld than in Charleston,
but no damage was done. Two shocks of
earthquake were felt on the same day at
Quemados, on the Island of Cuba.
In Laurens county, Ca, Friday night, an
old man named Perry was attacked by bur
glars, one of whom shot his companion in the
struggle The next morning Perry found the
dead man to be his next neighbor, constable
named Upton. His accomphce was identified
as an escaped convict named Weaver.
Two hundred men employed by the Far
quhar Agricultural Works, in York, Pennsyl
vania, struck on Monday morning. About
one hundred men remain at work. The
strike was ordered by the Knightaof Labor
because q ten per cent. advance allowed in
some of the shops was not made general.
1t is reported from Berks and neighborng
counties, Pa, that the recent thaw and cold
wave have played sad havoc with the grass and
grain fields. The frost lifted young grain out
of the soil, and the winds blew it away, leav-
ing fields almost bare. In some fields not a
vestge of grain remains, and it has all to be
resown.
The York Collegiate Institute, at York, Pa,
erected on the site of the old building burned
in 1885, was dedicated Tuesday evening
Governor Beaver and President Gillian, of
Johns Hopkins University. made addresses
Dr. Wing Of Garlise- Altered prayer. and DR.
McDougall, President of the Institute gave
an historical address.
The committee of stoekmen recently ap-
pointed by the Texas cattlemen to decide
upon location for large refrigerator can
ming and packing establishment have selected
Houston. The works will be constructed i'm
mediately, arrangements having already been
perfected for the transportation of the beef to
England.
The capital punishment law in Maine has
been repealed, and imprisonment for life is
substituted for death in all cases of murder in
the first degree. Such convicts, however. are
to be kept in close confinement away from
all associations, and no pardoning power is
left to the Governor and Council unless the
convict is proved innocent.
The State Department is informed that the
cholera has spread through portions of the
CHILEAN provinces of Aconeagua and Valpa-
raise, and is extending toward the sea. AT a
station on the railroad between Santiago and
. WI h. IL
600 cases have so far been reported, of which
about $50 have proved fatal.
The Reichstag on Friday of last week pass
ed the septennate bill by vote of 227 to 81
A few members of DIR. Windthorstis party
voted for the bill. The significance of this
result lies more in the acceptance by the
country of the principle that the army is the
Emperor's and not the Reichstag's, than in
its consenting to have Al 600 more regulars.
A street dnel occurred Saturday at Poto.
mac, ILL.,, between John Goodwin, wealthy
farmer, and Charles Morehead, a young bank
cashier. Goodwin had charged that his fif.
teen. year-old daughter was sedueed by More
head Two chambers in each ones pistol
had been emptied, when the alleged seducer
fell, MORALLY wounded. Goodwin escaped
without scratch.
A train of eight cars on the Dedham branch
of the Boston an Providence Railroad, in
Massachusetts,, Monday morning broke through
bridge near Roslindale, and five cars
fell to the bottom of a cut, thirty feet
below. The cars and bridge fell together in
one mass of debris. The latest particulars
show that &c persons were killed and about
100 injured. Some of the latter are not likely
to recover.
Near Springfield, Missouri, on Friday night
gang of armed men went to the house of
William Eaton, broke down the doors, and
fred a volley into the house. William Eaton
and Charles Green were killed. Eaton's
aged father was seriously wounded, one woman
was shot in the head, and anotherin the hand
1t is alleged that the attacking party are
members Of the Bald Knobbers, noted Wig
lance organization, and tits supposed that they
killed Evans and Green for being outspoken
against them:
A bull fight was announced at San Rafael,
Mexico, on Wednesday, and $4,000 people,
according to the report, crowded to see it.
The bulls refused to fight, and, finally, the
snecfafors burst into the ring and made an